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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Inscribed Red: Haiku Versions After Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

Inscribed Red: Haiku Versions After Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

Hoffman, Eric
Ryūnosuke, Akutagawa

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1959556975
ISBN13: 9781959556978
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Published: Feb 15 2024
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

As celebrated as Akutagawa Ryūnosuke is as a short story writer, his haiku-the first of which was composed in 1906, the same year Akutagawa began to read contemporary Japanese literature-is relatively unknown outside of Japan, and rarely translated. Akutagawa's teikei (fixed-form) haiku, like his fiction, mostly eschews modernism in its embrace of classical forms, and derives as much from literary tradition as from lived experience. If not for their precision, learning, and psychological depth, Akutagawa's haiku share more in common with the haikai of the 17th and 18th century than with 20th century haiku. Frequently they portray a modern consciousness in relationship with an idealized nature that exists more in the Japanese psyche than the landscape that surrounds him.

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